[1] This translation and notes are based on the revised edition of J. Curbera in IG II3. This verse dedication was made to the healing deity Asklepios in his sanctuary on the south slope of the Acropolis. The relationships of the people named are not quite certain, but it is likely that Phanostrate (l. 1, the name was previously incorrectly read as Phanostratos) was the midwife-doctor of that name later commemorated on the funerary monument, IG II2 6873, and that this dedication of a statue of her commemorates her successful treatment of Lysimache for a gynaecological problem. Appropriately enough in these circumstances the dedication results from a vow made (probably) by her daughter, D- (l. 3), and is set up by (probably) her husband and D-’s father, Delophanes, an Athenian citizen of the deme Cholargos. In l. 5 the ultimate credit is imputed to Asklepios’ “healing hand”. The family of the dedicant is not otherwise known.[2] Pataikos was priest of Asklepios before 343/2, IG II2 1532, 13, cf. S. B. Aleshire, The Athenian Asklepieion (1989), 126, 170.